Blake Emerson and Ronald M. Levin (Opinion published in The Regulatory Review October 30, 2019) A new ACUS recommendation on interpretive rules largely aligns with a prior one on policy statements. At its June 2019 plenary session, the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS) adopted Recommendation 2019-1, “Agency Guidance Through Interpretive Rules.” The recommendation…
The Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic at Washington University School of Law recently published a report titled “Environmental Racism in St. Louis”. This report detailed that in St. Louis, blacks suffer from poor environmental regulations at a greater rate than their white peers. In summary, black families are more likely to visit the emergency room due to asthma, test…
As part of the 174th Period of Sessions for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the Harris Institute has been invited to present at a hearing on “The Impact of Gun Violence in the United States” on Tuesday, November 12 in Quito, Ecuador. The Institute will present alongside Amnesty International, the Center for American…
Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey recently tweeted in support of pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong, causing reaction from the NBA and from China. Following Morey’s tweet, NBA commissioner Adam Silver expressed support for Morey’s freedom of speech. But in response, China’s state broadcaster CCTV punished the NBA by canceling broadcasts of two preseason NBA games….
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Building on the work of the Harris Institute’s Crimes Against Humanity Initiative, a new global treaty on the prevention and punishment of crimes against humanity is gaining momentum. In summer 2017, the International Law Commission (ILC) completed Draft Articles for a global convention for crimes against humanity and requested comments from governments, international organizations, and…
Merton C. Bernstein, the Walter D. Coles Professor of Law Emeritus at Washington University in St. Louis, died at his home in Brewster, Mass., on Aug. 3, 2019. He was 96. More information
Two more public mass shootings. More thoughts and prayers. We are staring down the barrel of 25 years of legislative failure. The last major federal gun control measure was the Brady Act, enacted in 1993. Although the House passed two significant gun control measures earlier this year, the bills didn’t get a hearing in the…
Javad Khazaeli, JD ’02, contributes to Chapter 2 of the In St. Louis project, which focuses on the fifth anniversary of the conflict in Ferguson, MO. The project is designed to explore — through the experiences, scholarship, work, and voices of St. Louisans — what it means to be in St. Louis today. It was developed…
During the July 30 Democratic presidential debate, candidate Pete Buttigieg renewed his calls to “depoliticize the Supreme Court with structural reform.” Buttigieg has previously endorsed a Supreme Court reform proposal offered by Daniel Epps, associate professor in the School of Law at Washington University in St. Louis. Epps’ article, “How to Save the Supreme Court,”…
Constitutional law expert Greg Magarian, the Thomas and Karole Green Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis, served as a judicial clerk for Justice John Paul Stevens of the U.S. Supreme Court. He offers this remembrance of the former justice: “John Paul Stevens was one of the greatest justices who ever graced the…
Attorney General William Barr announced July 15 a new Trump Administration plan, effective the next day, barring Central American immigrants from seeking asylum in the United States unless they seek it first in other Central American countries, a move that a Washington University in St. Louis immigration expert says “violates the clear language of the…